tscol lesson 1 Flashcards
In the classroom, most lessons involve the teacher asking low-level questions and learners answering with what facts they had memorized from yesterday or previous lessons.
banking method
against in banking method
paulo fierre
the impiricist
john locke
he says education is not acquisition of knowledge contained in the Classics. It is learners interacting with concrete experience. The learner is an active not a passive agent of his/her own learning.
john locke – the Empiricist
when combined with other facts from further questioning by the teacher, help learners see meaning and connection to their lives.
isolated facts
at birth the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Locke maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.
empiricism
the utilitarianist
spencer
only the fittest survives. “The expert who concentrates on a limited fields is useful, but if he loses sight of the interdependence of things he becomes a man who knows more and more about less and less.”
spencer
focuses on producing students who will be able to fit into society at an elite level and contribute as productive citizen.
utilitarian education
sel
socio emotional learning
a powerful tool for SEL-focused schools has as tenets that each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults, and each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified and caring adults…”
whole child approach
experience (philosopher)
john dewey
he does not disregard the accumulated wisdom of the past. These past ideas, discoveries and inventions, our cultural heritage, will be used as the material for dealing with problems and so will be tested. Of they are of help, they become part od a reconstructed experience.
john dewey
Building a New Social Order (philosopher)
george counts
Schools and teachers should be agents of change. Schools are considered instruments for social improvement rather than just agencies for preserving the status quo.
John Dewey – Experience
